Today is the 13th anniversary of the horrific attack on the United States of America by Islamic jihadists in which thousands of lives were lost. We remember those killed in New York City at and around the World Trade Center; those killed in our Pentagon in the nation’s capitol, and; those brave American heroes who died fighting back aboard their airliner immortalized with Todd Beamer’s charge “Let’s roll”.
It is one thing for those in our government to make mistakes, we all do but there is simply no excuse for the failure to fix the obvious and yet, that’s where we find ourselves today.
For all his foreign policy work to punish the terrorists, even our own George W. Bush didn’t follow-through on the fix to help address the most obvious shortcomings in our systems which made the 9/11 attack so much easier for the scumbags to carry out.
On security, it seems our government has mostly succeeded in the harassment of law abiding citizens, not with what the lessons of 9/11 taught.
The borders and immigration systems of this country have not been fixed, in fact one could argue that the flow of illegal aliens into the country has remained unchecked. The terrorists were here on legal visas but overstayed them – and yet after pouring billions into the new Homeland Security abyss, we’ve not implemented a workable system to stop visa overstay.
The terrorists had legal driver licenses which made it easy for them to blend in despite their illegal status. Congress did pass the Real I.D. Act in 2005 but not only are some jurisdictions still issuing driver licenses to those without legal status in the country, just this week in Texas a major newspaper called on Texas to issue such I.D.’s to illegal aliens.
On security, it seems our government has mostly succeeded in the harassment of law abiding citizens, not with what the lessons of 9/11 taught.
9/11 lessons remain unlearned, not acted upon
Robert Pratt
Today is the 13th anniversary of the horrific attack on the United States of America by Islamic jihadists in which thousands of lives were lost. We remember those killed in New York City at and around the World Trade Center; those killed in our Pentagon in the nation’s capitol, and; those brave American heroes who died fighting back aboard their airliner immortalized with Todd Beamer’s charge “Let’s roll”.
It is one thing for those in our government to make mistakes, we all do but there is simply no excuse for the failure to fix the obvious and yet, that’s where we find ourselves today.
For all his foreign policy work to punish the terrorists, even our own George W. Bush didn’t follow-through on the fix to help address the most obvious shortcomings in our systems which made the 9/11 attack so much easier for the scumbags to carry out.
On security, it seems our government has mostly succeeded in the harassment of law abiding citizens, not with what the lessons of 9/11 taught.
The borders and immigration systems of this country have not been fixed, in fact one could argue that the flow of illegal aliens into the country has remained unchecked. The terrorists were here on legal visas but overstayed them – and yet after pouring billions into the new Homeland Security abyss, we’ve not implemented a workable system to stop visa overstay.
The terrorists had legal driver licenses which made it easy for them to blend in despite their illegal status. Congress did pass the Real I.D. Act in 2005 but not only are some jurisdictions still issuing driver licenses to those without legal status in the country, just this week in Texas a major newspaper called on Texas to issue such I.D.’s to illegal aliens.
On security, it seems our government has mostly succeeded in the harassment of law abiding citizens, not with what the lessons of 9/11 taught.